All About Cupcakes: DIY an Acrylic Cupcake Stand (Part 3)
Cupcake stands in the market are ready sets of normally 3, 4 or 5 tiers. I will show you how to DIY build a cupcake stand using acrylic boards and risers. You can adjust the number of tiers needed at any time .
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This is a 5 tier stand which fits 50 pieces of cupcakes and a top 6inch diameter cake. The risers are 4 inches in height.
Acrylic stands are beautiful as it is transparent and all the better to showcase the cupcake designs.
How to Assemble a Cupcake Stand
Important points:
- Acrylic risers need to be all the same height. Take note of this during purchasing to prevent waste of your energy and resources. Place them laying down during assembly which gives more stability,
- Acrylic disks can be customised by sellers should you require bigger sizes. Seen on this video are 17″ 15″ 14″ 12″ 10″ and a 6″ diameter cake on an 8″ cake board.
- A total of 50 pcs of cupcakes can be placed on the stand.
Here is a further guide on purchasing cupcake cups and a recipe on baking cupcakes.
This cupcake tower uses acrylic risers of 4 inches height.
The risers are placed laying down which makes a steady support for acrylic boards placed on top of them.
Acrylic round disk from 6 inch diameter and above.
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Benefits of DIY Cupcake Stand
The benefits of building your own DIY cupcake stand using acrylic risers and disks are:
- Not limited to 3 or 4 tiers. Able to build bigger towers.
- A more stable tower with risers.
- Multiple uses for risers, such as rising plates or trays on dessert table.
- Constructing a stucture by stacking and showcase petits fours, as shown below.
